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World of Warcraft - Crafting made redundant!
2008-01-17 21:28:00
I?ve been playing or better say grinding away at WoW in my spare time for last year or so. I had played it for months then lost interest (surprised?) but have since taken it up again. Due to the siesta in gaming with it I?m not an uber high level 70 like most of the ...
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Travian Plus, have you any gold, buying the end game
2007-12-18 16:17:00
Having “battled” through a Travian sever I am well aware of just how competitive it can get as the game draws to a close (The End Game ). I saw cheating on a grand scale. Players with multiple accounts. The GF Meta alliance even went as far as to hack into a forum and obtain a ...
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Mass Effect - Game of the Year
2007-12-10 01:30:00
  If your in anyway into your console RPG’s, you’ed of realized as i have that up to now the Xbox 360 really hasn’t unleashed many jems in the genre. Sure we had Oblivion but outside that the rest were sub-par at best. Blue Dragon, Enchanted Arms, Eternal Sonata, these games all tried to set the ...
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Ass-assins Creed Review
2007-12-06 02:25:00
Its finally arrived, after months and months of drooling over screenshots, gameplay vids and developer interviews Assassin’s Creed hits Xbox 360 and PS3 with the PC version to come early 08. But was it really worth the wait? Simply put, NO!. How can a developer take such a beautiful engine, intriging story and fabulous combat system ...
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Never Winter Nights II ? Mask of the Betrayer Blog Review
2007-11-29 10:52:00
NWN was a must for any fans of the RPG genre, the successor to the superb Baldur?s gate series and long forgotten, eye of the beholder classics. Full 3D view and slick interaction justifiably made it the flagship for next generation RPGs. NWN II was initially staggeringly in its depth of character development, items, monsters ...
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Crysis Review, PC Gaming has a new poster boy
2007-11-22 13:07:00
Well the most hyped game of all time has come and gone in a few short days!!! Crysis , the proud creation of German Developers Crytek had promised to “Bring PC Gaming Home”. Flaunting “next-gen” graphics and an action packed story line….is this the PC game to rub in the faces of the console masses…..well the ...
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Crysis physics bug, cryengine 2 bug, crysis water bug
2007-11-19 12:59:00
Crysis wood physics bug At the moment i’m playing my way through the full game, and im happy to report I have not found any physics bugs like this in the final release of the game. So far I have only seen a gun get stuck in a wall and make a really loud crashing noise?!? This ...
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Opposing Fronts, COH, Company of Heroes add on pack
2007-11-14 13:01:00
Opposing Fronts Review Having downloaded from Steam and had a few technical frights with the horrid ?game is currently unavailable?error, I was very excited about playing the follow up to the best game of 2006. Like Dawn of War (DOW - another Relic title), it seemed very hard to improve on a formula that worked so ...
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PORTAL : Half life’s mod which has become a whole separate entity
2007-11-04 20:10:00
It’s been known since Valve announced the release of Half Life Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2 that a new type of game “Portal � would make it’s presence known. I got the orange box only the other day and I am amazed at what they have done. Plot Aperature Science is the name of a company which throughout the course of the game you see has direct links to Black Mesa. You are a test subject which wakes up in a sealed laboratory and asked to conduct tests under the scrutiny of Aperature Science technicians. A monotonous voice tells you what to do and provides limited reassurance but also is quick to point out that damage to life can occur if the correct procedures are not followed. Lovely! The atmosphere is very clinical, sterile and cold. After a brief introduction to the magic of “the portal� you get your shaking hands on ‘the device’ that has turned our game world askew. And now for the next 19 chapters you get to unlearn what you think you know and re learn the laws o...
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Crysis Demo Released, lush tropical island to destroy
2007-10-29 14:52:00
Plot: I think at this stage we are all well aware of the Plot of Crysis. This game has had an enormous amount of media hype, which is reflected by the huge amount of video game play footage that has been released to date. Suffice to say at this stage 99% of gamers are well ...
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Timeshift, Half Life 2 meets Max Payne and they buy a nano suit!
2007-10-18 16:26:00
I recently played through a demo of Timeshift. This title has been on the cards for quite some time, but due to changes at the 11th hour it was delayed for some time!!! Graphics Timeshift is built using its own proprietary engine. The engine itself scrubs up pretty well, features include depth of field effects, some fancy ...
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EA SPORTS NHL 2008
2007-10-15 23:30:00
EA have just missed the goal with this one but it is salvageable! I don’t normally gripe about icehockey games that are out on the market because I love the sport so much and I think that EA Sports do a good job, most of the time. I’ve been buying the EA sports hockey games ...
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The Black Box gone, no more, removed, lost, forgotten, Valve suck?.
2007-10-12 11:27:00
I have been happily enjoying using Steam. At first I thought it a bit NAZI authoritarian the way I had to register every single file through Steam before I was able to play. Some people griped that to play a single player game they needed an internet connection (also broadband, or it took 6 years ...
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Star Trek Legacy, not going anywhere near where men have gone before?
2007-10-10 15:20:00
I have a lot of respect for Bethesda Softworks, they brought us Oblivion…and that was not half bad!! But every now again a game is made….that should never have been made. Star Trek Legacy is a space combat simulator. It has a single player campaign mode, a skirmish and multiplayer mode (correct me if i?m wrong). ...
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Crysis multiplayer beta, screenshots and review
2007-10-03 10:27:00
So through the good folk at fileplanet.com, I managed to get a Key for the Crysis Multiplayer Beta Test. I downloaded the client which is not huge at around 1.38gb. Installation The installation went well, with no problem reported at all. I fired it up straight away before checking any of the game setting and joined a ...
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Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 ? Revisited
2007-10-01 13:19:00
After a recent LAN I decided to buy this at last. I played it as a free trial about a year or two ago when it came out on STEAM. At the time I wasn?t playing many FPSs with variety. I was playing Call of Duty religiously online. Then upgraded to Battlefield 2 for a ...
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Travian, online browser mayhem, no cheating please, travian cheats
2007-09-18 16:03:00
I’m getting a disturbing number of visitors to this blog looking for cheats for Travian. For those of you who don’t know who travian is read all about it here and sign up! I?m currently playing on Server 1 and have been doing so for many….many months. The great thing about travian (in my opinion) is ...
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Kwari Teaser video, kwari cash for kills
2007-09-14 10:48:00
Got this Kwari video sent on to me. Not a gamplay movie but it kind of shows who they are targeting with their advertising campaign. “Angry Teenagers of the World…..spend your money getting fragged!” Kwari Teaser video I have a few new screen-shots. I must say im not trilled with the engine. There screens look very average, ...
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Bioshock ? A welcome shock to the system
2007-09-10 18:33:00
Alice in Wonderland meets a Clockwork Orange and sets a trend as the next Half Life that?s strung out on LSD on the ocean floor. This game speaks volumes, and the fact that it does with ease is very satisfactory. Straight off the bat it reminds me of the Fallout series. Set in an industrialised and ...
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Kwari, earn money playing fps, online gaming for money
2007-08-30 15:29:00
I like the idea of making money playing computer games, and Iâ??m not talking about playing a PSP under your desk in work either! Kwari, a Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter or MMOFPS ;), offers to give you the chance to turn your gaming skills into cold hard cash! Now Iâ??m not good enough ...
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Bioshock PC Demo, we are forced to wait, Xbox demo before PC
2007-08-16 10:21:00
Gamers the world around are waiting on Bioshock with eager anticipation. Imagine my surprise when I find out an Xbox toting friend has played the game…..before PC gamers even get a sniff in!!!! This is an insult! A game that has its root 100% firmly embedded in the PC and whoâ??s predecessors are pillars of PC ...
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DOD: Source, doing normal DOD justice!
2007-07-16 12:46:00
The original Day of Defeat mod was excellent. We mostly played it using the excellent SturmBot plugin, which provided excellent Bots to populate your network games (for lack of real people!!) My only problem with DOD: Source is the lack of Bots, that said this is my only criticism. The thing that made DOD great for ...
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Half Life 2 revisited, ant lions, combine and dune buggys!
2007-06-26 13:27:00
Have not posted in a while…..too busy working and replaying Half Life 2. What a game…..what an excellent game! Iâ??m mostly a fan of free-form FPS. I loved the idea STALKER presented (and almost pulled off perfectly) of a huge world (divided up into squares!!!) where you could pick and choose what quests and jobs to ...
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, review, bugs, display problems
2007-04-04 15:20:00
Stalker Review So we were 5 years in the waiting. Was it worth the wait…..in my opinion certainly not. That said S.T.A.L.K.E.R is still a very goof FPS. Firstly the reason we were waiting 5 years for what is a game that could have been delivered 2 years ago technology wise, is the fact that the small ...
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